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2018 Titles

Title: Baby Mamas

Director : Stephina Zwane
Genre : Romantic Comedy
Length : 85”
Country : South Africa
Status : Completed
Release Year : 2018
Languages : English
Available Territories : None till 2022
Sold to Date : Netflix Worldwide

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‘Baby Mamas’ is a comedy drama revolving around the daily lives and loves of four professional women who are all in different stages of their own real-‐life baby mama drama. We meet TOLI, CHANTEL, SANDY and JOY working for an insurance company in Johannesburg.

CHANTEL discovers that she’s pregnant and her whole is turned upside down. She had been a good girl all along and now she has a lot to learn about herself as a soon-‐to-‐be-‐mom, with a boyfriend who is not ready to be a father yet.

SANDY is still in love with her ex-‐boyfriend and father of her child. She still had high hopes for their relationship but now has to deal with her ex-‐ moving on with someone else.

JOY is in a tumultuous relationship with bad-‐boy Sizwe. They have a volatile, on-‐ again-‐off-‐again relationship, filled with violent outbursts and constant allegations of infidelity.

TOLI is the leader of the group. She’s been through all the ‘Baby Mama’ drama one person can handle. She is learning first-‐hand that the most difficult part of dating as a single Mom is deciding how much you are willing to risk your own child’s heart, on your path to love.

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Title: BIGGER

Director : George Gallo
Genre : Drama
Length : 107”
Country : USA
Status : Completed
Release Year : 2018
Languages : English
Available Territories : None till 2022
Sold to Date : Netflix Africa

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BIGGER is a powerful rags to riches story about international icons Joe and Ben Weider, who created the sport of modern bodybuilding as we know it today. They founded the Mr. Olympia competition and discovered Arnold Schwartzenegger along the way. They forever changed the way people viewed the human body and went on to build a business empire founded on fitness.

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Title: RBG

Director : Betsy West and Julie Cohen
Genre : Documentary | Biography
Length : 98”
Country : USA
Status : Completed
Release Year : 2018
Languages : English
Available Territories : Africa VOD Non Exclusive
Sold to Date : SABC South Africa

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg has created a breathtaking legal legacy for women’s rights while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. The personal journey of this diminutive, quiet warrior’s rise to the nation’s highest court during a hostile time for women, is revealed in this inspiring and multidimensional portrait. Now 85, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, continues to have vigorous dissenting opinions and her exercise workouts.

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Title: The Gospel According to André

Director : Kate Novack
Genre : Documentary
Length : 93”
Country : USA
Status : Completed
Release Year : 2018
Languages : English
Available Territories : Africa VOD Non Exclusive
Sold to Date : SABC South Africa

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From the segregated American South to the fashion capitals of the world, operatic fashion editor André Leon Talley’s life and career are on full display, in a poignant portrait that includes appearances by Anna Wintour, Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford, Bethann Hardison, Valentino, and Manolo Blahnik.

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2017 titles

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Title: Pop, Lock ‘n Roll

Director: Jonathan Hofmeyr
Genre: Dance, Drama, Romance
Length: 84”
Country: South Africa
Status: Completed
Release Year: 2017
Languages in film: English
Available Territories: None till 2022
Sold to Date : DSTV Africa, Netflix World Wide

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Raps is an ambitious street style, hip hop dancer from a poor neighbourhood who believes that money is everything. He gets a lucky break and rises as a professional entertainer, but when he falls in love with the beautiful Brazilian wife of the gangster-come-producer who’s making his career, he’ll have to risk career and life to find true happiness.

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Title: Richard The Stork

Director: Toby Genkel, Reza Memari
Genre: Animation, Family
Length: 85”
Status: Completed
Release Year: 2017
Languages in film: English (Available in Afrikaans and Zulu)
Available Territories: Africa
Released Theatrically

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Orphaned as a chick when his parents are cruelly taken by a cat, Richard the sparrow (voiced by Cooper Kelly Kramer) is adopted by a family of hoity-toity bourgeois storks. despite the protestations of patriarch Claudius (voiced by Jonathan Todd Ross).

Richard believes he is one of them. But when the time comes for their annual migration to Africa, his stork family is forced to reveal his true identity and leave him behind in the forest, since he is not a migratory bird and would not survive the long arduous journey. This comes as a shock to Richard.

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Title: Keeping Up with the Kandasamys

Director: Jayan Moodley
Genre: Comedy
Length: 87”
Country: South Africa
Status: Completed
ZA Release Year: 2017
Languages in film: English only
Available Territories: Worldwide except Africa

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Matriarchal rivals of neighboring families, whose young adult children become romantically involved – try despite their best efforts – to keep them apart with hilarious results.

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2016 titles

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Title: Happiness is a Four Letter Word

Director: Thabang Moleya
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Length: 84”
Country: South Africa
Status: Completed
ZA Release Year: 2016
Languages in film: English only
Available Territories: None till 2023
Sold to Date : Aspire USA

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Perfectionist Nandi seems to have the New South African Dream life within her grasp, black female partner in a major firm, marriage, the perfect house – but it all goes up in flames a few months before the wedding. With her friends Zaza and Princess, Nandi will have to find out what truly makes her happy and then fight to get it.

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Title: Hatchet Hour

Director: Judy Naidoo
Genre: Thriller
Length: 86”
Country: South Africa
Status: Completed
ZA Release year: 2016
Languages in film: English
Available Territories: Worldwide except Africa

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A fiery and ball-busting lawyer Belle, mistakenly believes her gardener Amos to be an assailant, and shoots him dead. Belle decides not to report the accident and take her chances in the legal system. She assumes that her brilliant career, as well as that of her legendary lawyer father, will be ruined if the courts find against her and charge her with manslaughter. She must get rid of the body and all evidence of the crime. She turns to her best friend Jade to help her destroy Amos’ body.

They heave dead Amos into Belle’s car and drive up to a safari park hoping to dump the body in the territory of scavengers and predators who will eat the carcass including the bullets that could convict her. Jade tries to persuade Belle to reconsider this reckless course of action. But Belle in order to control her life must exert control over the lives of others. Jade is slowly awakened to the full horror of this act but their actions have already set in motion a destructive chain of events that spiral out of control.

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2014 titles

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Title: Hard to Get

Director : Zee Ntuli
Genre: Comedy Drama
Length: 93”
Country: South Africa
Status: Completed
Release Year: 2014
Languages in Film: English and isiZulu
Available Territories: Worldwide except Africa

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Hard to Get begins in a crowded bar where handsome gigolo TK (Pallance Dladla) works. Skiets (Thishiwe Ziqubu) a strong beautiful out of town petty criminal catches his eye. TK wins her heart but he must undertake one mission which will lead him into the Johannesburg underworld and which will threaten all he has lived and fought for.

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Title: Hatchet Hour

Director: Zuko Nodada
Genre: Comedy Drama
Length (min): 93”
Country: South Africa
Status: Completed
Release Year: 2014
Languages in Film: English and isiZulu
Available Territories: Worldwide except Africa

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After 7 years, a group of university friends reunite at an upmarket Game Lodge in KZN. Long buries secrets, shared by old friends are eventually exposed, causing tension to arise in current relationships.

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Title: Faan se Trein

Director: Koos Roets
Genre: Drama
Length (min): 115
Country: South Africa
Status: Completed
Release Year: 2014
Languages in Film: Afrikaans
Available Territories: Worldwide except Africa

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Faan, a simple minded man living in a tiny Karoo community, and his love of trains. The town is divided about Faan. Some feel threatened by him others feel he is harmless. Things come to a head when Faan’s aged father, Frik, is awarded the contract to build the town dam only to fall terminally ill before the work is completed. Beatrice, the Doctor’s wife, overcome by desire for Faan’s inheritance sets out on a scheme that nearly results in the loss of her life at the hands of Faan.

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Title: Ghetto Goblin

Director: Jordan Harland
Genre: Horror
Length (min): 73
Country: South Africa
Status: Completed
Release Year: 2013
Languages in Film: English/Zulu
Available Territories: Worldwide

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Strange attacks plague the township’s women, leaving the town leaders at a loss to defend them. At the same time Mthnuzi, a shrewd businessman, is becoming wealthier and more popular with the ladies – something is amiss. The local reverend, Simon Nkosi, learns that Mthunzi is controlling a Tokoloshe to fulfill his greedy desires.

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Title: Adera

Director: Nega Tariku
Genre: Drama
Length (min): 104
Country: Ethiopia/South Africa
Release Year: 2009
Languages in Film: Amharic/English
Available Territories: Worldwide

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The story of an Ethiopian woman’s plight in South Africa as she struggles to earn enough money to support and return to her children in Ethiopia.

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